Re: Action-1640

> On May 21, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> We are doing that James but we need a layer that works with web driver

WebDriver is a Windows-specific tool. Perhaps even specific to Internet Explorer, is it not?

> and Selenium that talks to the API exposed by webkit. We are doing this to test the accessibility API mapping on all the platforms.

That sounds a lot like the old AIA project. Have any other UA implementors expressed an interest in this?

Seems like the better approach is to push harder for Element.computedRole() and other related DOM interfaces so these can be standard tests in JavaScript through any number of platform-specific tools, including but not limited to WebDriver, Selenium, etc.

James

> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> 
> From:	James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
> To:	Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc:	PF <public-pfwg@w3.org>, WAI XTech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> Date:	05/20/2015 02:31 AM
> Subject:	Re: Action-1640
> 
> 
>> I'm sorry, no. I can't commit anyone's time to this at the moment.
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>> I'd encourage you to take the TTWF approach [1] as much as possible. Writing web standard tests using JavaScript that work in any browser will be much more effective in the long run than writing platform-specific wrappers introducing fragility.
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>> 1. http://testthewebforward.org
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>> On May 19, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi James, 
>>> 
>>> Do you have someone who can work with the aapi task force, that Joseph chairs, to write web driver code to do automated testing of Safari for ARIA 1.1? We are working plans to do more automated testing for ARIA 1.1 and are currently working out plans to do automated testing for IE, Chrome,Firefox on Windows, and Firefox,Webkit on Linux. 
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>>> Rich
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>>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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Received on Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:28:58 UTC